Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Green Arrow:''' Does ''everything'' have a sinister motive in your world?<br />

'''The Question:''' Yours too; you just don't know it.|''[[Justice League]]'', "Fearful Symmetry"}}

Following things are a must-have for any [['''Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]]''' worth its salt (for required ''tropes'', see [[The Index Is Watching You]]):

* A [[Secret War]] between [[The Illuminati]], [[The Knights Templar]], [[The Hashshashin]], the [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampire]] [[Deadly Decadent Court|Courts]], [[The Fair Folk]], Freemasons, Opus Dei, [[The Mafia]], [[CIA Evil, FBI Good|CIA]] and [[KGB]], [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|Rogue AIs]], [[Cosmic Horror Story|Lovecraftian]] and [[Hollywood Satanism|Satanic]] [[Cult|cultscult]]s, [[The Pentagon]], Bilderberg Group, Majestic-12, [[The Greys]], and [[The Reptilians]]. Yes, all at once in one merry free-for-all that no [[Gullible Lemmings]] ever notices.

* Nonchalant [[The Reveal|revelations]] of the ''real'' allegiances and agendas of [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Jack the Ripper]], [[Nikola Tesla]], [[Grigori Rasputin the Mad Monk|Rasputin]], [[Adolf Hitler]], and [[Elvis Presley]].

* The sinister purpose of [[Ley Line|Ley Lines]]s, [[The Pyramids]], the [[Holy Grail]], the [[Philosopher's Stone]], [[What the Heck Is An Aglet?|aglets]], and any number of other [[Public Domain Artifact|Public Domain Artifacts]]s.

This trope covers [[Settings]] and entire series/works. For the characters who ''believe'' they live in a [['''Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]]''', see [[Conspiracy Theorist]].

{{quote| '''Oracle:''' The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.<br />

'''Neo:''' I've never heard of them.<br />

* The ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movies seems to represent a peculiar version of this -- everythis—every conspiracy theory you've ever heard is on to something big, but the truth behind all of them is the same, in this case aliens.

** Elvis' death? He was an alien who just went home. Or so K ''claims'', anyway; [[Alternate Character Interpretation|maybe he was just messing with J's head?]]

{{quote| '''J:''' Cab drivers...<br />

* In the early-'90s ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' movie, the [[Big Bad|Red Skull]], who went underground after [[World War II]], is revealed to now be the head of a [[Nebulous Evil Organization]] which basically secretly runs the world, and was responsible for the assassinations of both the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, among other dastardly acts.

{{quote| '''Undercover Brother:''' And O.J. ''really didn't do it.''<br />

''[[Beat|*awkward silence*]]''<br />

* ''[[Delta Green]]'' is a modern-time setting for the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' RPG. Not only is every possible conspiracy staged by either Nyarlatotep, Mi-Go, or some other [[Eldritch Abomination]], but the playable organization, [[Delta Green]], is an illegal conspiracy. Why? Because official paranormal investigators are controlled by aliens, of course.

** The [[New World of Darkness]] is getting there, too, except none of the conspiracies control ''everything'', just a specialized area. The Seers of the Throne make sure that magic stays out of the Fallen World so they get it all to themselves. They have their own phony Men in Black, Division Six... and we say "phony" because the ''real'' Men in Black, Task Force: VALKYRIE, operate out of the US Treasury. Then you have the medical corporation that performs experiments on supernatural creatures to find out how useful their parts are, the Catholic Church's crack monster-hunting squad, and the FBI bureau staffed with psychics who hunt down [[Slasher MoviesMovie|supernatural serial killers]] and stick them in a Midwestern Guantanamo. And so on. (It's worth noting that all of the listed examples, excluding the Seers of the Throne but including Division Six, come from ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]''.)

* The following example has been deemed classification level Viridian Gamma by [[Warhammer 4000040,000|The Holy Inquisition of the Imperium of Man]]: {{spoiler|You know too much. *BLAM*}}

{{quote| '''Anna:''' Are you ''sure'' you pressed the right button?<br />

'''Gunther:''' I do not make mistakes of that kind! <br />

'''Anna:''' Your hand might have slipped.<br />

'''Gunther:''' No, I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime.<br />

'''Anna:''' The machine would not make a mistake.<br />

'''Gunther:''' It's the maintenance man. He ''knows'' I like orange!<br />

'''Anna:''' So you think the ''staff'' has some kind of ''plot''?<br />

{{quote| '''Bum:''' Someone here must have really liked lemon-lime soda.}}

* ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' parodied itself at one point by having one of the on-disc [[All There in the Manual|supplementary story recaps]] being a book written by the [[Unreliable Narrator|most hilariously deranged conspiracy theorist]] you could possibly imagine. (To give you an idea; we don't get to read it, but the title of his previous book was ''Rays From The Loch Ness Monster -- The True Power Source Of UFOs''.) To his credit, he was extremely good at ''identifying'' conspiracies -- unfortunatelyconspiracies—unfortunately, he never blamed the events on the ''right'' conspiracies, attributing [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]-caused disaster of the previous game to the island it was on being "an Ellis Island for the Greys". The whole farce ends with him being rescued by an invisible man whom he proudly, loudly declares is a noble [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] who had taken pity on him, when it's clear to the reader that it's Solid Snake in [[Invisibility Cloak|active camo]].

{{quote| This isMeet David Icke. He is a fucking loon.}}